Maxwan wins 625ha in Antwerp

Press release:

Maxwan together with Karres en Brands, HUB (B) and in collaboration with Goudappel Coffeng and Antea Group (B), won the key commission of the design guidelines of the Groene Singel, a strategic 625ha site containing the Antwerp R1 Ringroad. Other participants of the competition included Field Operations (USA), Latz+Partner (DE), H+N+S Landscape (NL) and Palmbout Urban Landscapes (NL).

Currently an underdeveloped, spatially and ecologically fragmented infrastructure corridor, the future Groene Singel will become the major development catalyst for the city of Antwerp, integrating exciting and diverse ecological connections, key public spaces and strategic programmatic developments.

The jury, which included Kristiaan Borret (City Architect), Willem Jan Neutelings (Neutelings Riedijk Architects) and Kitty Haine (Groene Singel Program Leader), highlighted the proposal's successful merging of an ecology-driven vision with financial pragmatism that secures sustainable progress in times of budgetary pressure.

The commission, to be carried out in 2012, will entail drawing up comprehensive design guidelines for the site and its immediate surroundings, as well as the subsequent supervision of the development of different partial projects.

MAXWAN ARCHITECTS + URBANISTS is an international practice dedicated to contemporary architectural, landscape, and urban design. Working on a broad variety of subjects, Maxwan have designed widely recognized projects such as the "Saw Tooth Tower (Nuilding)" in Rotterdam, the "Office Building F&I" (Maastricht Aachen Airport) and "50 Bridges" for the City of Utrecht. Maxwan have made a name for themselves internationally with innovative proposals for the new town of Leidsche Rijn (75,000 residents and a hidden highway), the 10,800 houses Master Plan for Barking Riverside, the Master Plan A101 for a new city of 300,000 inhabitants on the fringes of Moscow, the master plan for 2,000 houses in the Dnepr River Delta, Kiev Ukraine and most recently the urban design for the Waalhafen Zone in Rotterdam with in its center "Skill Bill" a new building typology reconnecting the harbour with the city. We encourage collaboration between clients, colleagues and specialist consultants. In each of our projects, we seek to merge cultural, technical and esthetical influences into an inextricable and beautiful whole.

Via: Maxwan.com